Freedom and Reactance

Brehm’s theory of psychological reactance in 1966 was the start of a psychological investigation into the consequences of losing freedom. First published in 1974, this book was written to capture the many directions taken by the theory since, and to integrate reactance theory with theoretical ideas that applied to some of the same phenomena

Robert A. Wicklund (1941-2020), at University of Texas at Austin, USA at time of original publication.